Bill Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts who ran for vice president as a Libertarian in 2016, now plans to challenge President Trump. (MOLLY RILEY / AFP/Getty Images)

Bill Weld isn’t going down without a fight — and he doesn’t think President Trump should, either.

The former governor of Massachusetts, who announced last week that he intends to challenge the President in a primary in 2020, defended his decision because, he said, another term “would be bad for the country.”

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“I think the Republicans in Washington want to have no election basically,” the 73-year-old politician, who served as governor from 1991 to 1997, said on “This Week” Sunday.

“I don't think that would be very good for the country, and I have a lot of views of how the President is acting in office. You know, I don't think he knows how to act. He thinks he has to humiliate whoever he's dealing with or else he's half a man. The emergency declaration is just one example of that. Congress thought they had a deal. He says, ‘Oh, you think you have a deal? I'm going to show you a deal. I'm going to show you who's boss.’ It's just no way to run a railroad.”

Host Martha Raddatz questioned Weld about his flip-flopping, including running for vice president in 2016 as a Libertarian with Gary Johnson before returning to the Republican Party. He also endorsed Barack Obama over John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

But Weld said that he doesn’t intend to persuade the Republican state chairman that he should win, just the country.

The former candidate for New York governor — who withdrew from the 2006 primary after the Republican State Convention endorsed John Faso instead — also gave a brief glimpse into his talking points, including Trump’s “reckless” spending and a need to prioritize education for the working poor as artificial intelligence cuts jobs.